New King James Version
Job 39:17
17Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with understanding.
Job 39:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.
- English Standard Version (ESV)because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For God has deprived her of wisdom. He has given her no understanding.
Context of Job 39:17
15She forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may break them. 16She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers; Her labor is in vain, without concern, Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with understanding. 18When she lifts herself on high, She scorns the horse and its rider. 19“Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:17 word by word
כִּֽי־הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא־חָ֥לַק לָ֝֗הּ בַּבִּינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:17
- Job 17:4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them.
- Job 35:11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’
- Deuteronomy 2:30“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.
- 2 Chronicles 32:31However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.
- Isaiah 19:11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?”
- Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Commentaries on Job 39:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17God hath deprived her of wisdom - Of this foolishness we have an account from the ancients; and here follow two instances: It covers its head in the reeds, and thinks itself all out of sight because itself cannot see. So Claudian: - - 'Stat lumine clauso Ridendum revoluta caput: creditque latere Quad non ipsa videt.' 2. They who hunt them draw the skin of an ostrich's neck on one hand, which proves a sufficient lure to take them with the other. They have…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom - That is, he has not imparted to her the wisdom which has been conferred on other animals. The meaning is, that all this remarkable arrangement, which distinguished the ostrich so much from other animals was to be traced to God. It was not the result of chance; it could not be pretended that it was by a human arrangement, but it was the result of divine appointment. Even in this apparent destitution of wisdom…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-18In the ancient Near East, people believed the ostrich was a bird that God had not given wisdom.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. wisdom--such as God gives to other animals, and to man (Job 35:11). The Arab proverb is, "foolish as an ostrich." Yet her very seeming want of wisdom is not without wise design of God, though man cannot see it; just as in the trials of the godly, which seem so unreasonable to Job, there lies hid a wise design.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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